Wednesday Weigh In
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Peggy, it's called Stitching the Pieces Together, the forum is Growing Friendships after Treatment.
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Peggy, have you tried loseit.com.? I know when I make myself put down everything on their site I eat I do better. Also you could check out the 'Lets Post Our Daily Exercise' thread. Quite a few of us from this thread also post there & reporting in gives me more motiviation.
I am still trying to get back on track after my two week vacation.....as long as I stay being good, I do pretty well.....but man, I find it hard to get BACK to it once I've been bad for awhile!!!
Getting the help you need for depression, by exercising, by eating healthier, by posting here...these are all very positive things you are doing for yourself. Recognize that we all have BLAH, I DON"T CARE JUST HAND OVER THE CANDY days, and that's OK.....sometimes you really do need the candy.....the trick is to then move on. We can't uneat the junk we ate yesterday, but we can control what we eat today (darn, after writing all that, I will probably have to be good today
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PeggySull, when I have a set-back, it helps me to think of advice from busines guru Tom Peters. Everyone fails, it's inevitable. The key is to fail fast & learn from it, then adapt and move on.
For example, I have recently discovered tiramisu gelato. OMG so good! I have learned to buy the single-serve containers rather than the 4-serving container which is cheaper per-serving but harder to limit portion size.
All I can say is you're not alone, and please keep trying! ♥
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Good advice badger!
I am still at my plateau but that is all I can hope for until after I finish rads, with the "60 grams a day of protein" recommendation. I am being pretty good but for me all this protein means handfuls of nuts. A bit too fattening.
I finish up rads next week then have a little vacation, then will be on that "ten pounds before Christmas" weight loss challenge for real. I got a new bike to help. look out flabby waist!!!
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Peggy-Sull, since DIEP flap surgery on May 16 I was not allowed to exercise for 12 weeks except for walking. I sat at home all those weeks surrounded by food. Despite the fact that I just got a tummy tuck and a new boob which was looking really good, I could not stop eating, sabotaging the good work. Binged on nuts, chocolate, bread, whatever, and gained about 8 lbs. It was a train wreck, I was so upset with myself for gaining the weight, but I could not stop eating.
A week ago I started serious exercise again. Two yoga classes a week, 30 min. interval training sessions on the treadmill, aquasizes, some strength training, walking my dog for 3 miles at a time. That changed everything for me, and I am back on track. I started eating healthy again, and just what I need. It is like a switch that's been flipped, and I have started losing weight. What helps me tremendously is getting a pedometer that measures my steps. If I see that I'm not going to make my target for the day, I go for another walk, or go do stuff in the garden. Hope you can get past this, but don't beat yourself up. I keep telling myself to set realistic goals, and that I have the rest of my life to do this. Marathon, not sprint.
Was in the grocery store just now, and saw Timtams there which I have never tried. It is a chocolate and caramel cookie that is apparently very delicious. I picked up a box and read . . . 200 calories PER COOKIE!!!!!! Needless to say it went back on the shelf.
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Thank you all so much for the encouragement and suggestions. I will follow through and do them. I will refer back here when I feel the urge to overheat or eat the wrong things. Today is a new day!
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liefie, love your post. So encouraging, not just for PeggySull but for all of us. Thanks. (Congrats on putting the Timtams back and being back on track.)
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Bad timtams!!! Congrats for putting them back! Good for you.
One of my students very sweetly sent me a big box of chocolate-dipped strawberries to celebrate the end of radiation (tomorrow) and I just realized that I have eaten FIVE of them since yesterday AM. Ouch!
And tomorrow they will weigh me at my appointment on the dreaded medical scale - after lunch, not first thing in the AM. Oy! If I have gained it will certainly serve me right.
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When I was pregnant, I would weigh on the medical scale at our clinic to see if I could eat lunch before my appointment or should wait until after.
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Haha I am feeling like a chocolate butterball today- even skipping lunch might not help with this situation, sadly.
that is funny though, I hope you didnt miss lunch too often while you were expecting!0 -
Not happy-up .6 now weigh 176.4. Funny thing is, I weighed myself yesterday and was 175.2, so maybe it's a bit of fluid retention? I can only hope! Good luck ladies.
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Not surprised that I gained from my emotional eating of sweets last week. Too much too many times. I am up 1.4 pounds to 162.8. Sigh. Well, this is a brand new week and I can do better. My hardest times are in the evening and I need to work on a strategy for that.
Best to everyone this week!
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I am down 2.7 lbs from last week. Weighed NAB at 129.2. Striving to stay under 130 now. It's really amazing how little food I need at my age now and height of 5'2". It doesn't take much for me to start packing on the pounds.
Slv, I honestly think such a small difference from one day to the next can be simply how empty (or not) your bowel and bladder are, fluid retention, etc.
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Got rid of 2 more vacation pounds....one more to go to get back to where I was when I left....sigh.....easier to put on than take off, that is for sure!
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Down .5 lbs to 162. Going in the right direction. 1/10 of my way to losing 10 lbs by Christmas!
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Way to go ladies! You give me encouragement
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160.5 this morning, down one and a half lbs. It's happening at last! Being able to exercise again makes a real difference for me. Hoping to break through the 160 barrier this week. Hang in there everyone!
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Up .5 to 131. May be due to pigging out at the neighborhood block party last night. Such good food.
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I'm also up .5 but in my case it was three bdays, tailgating at a baseball game, and a family cook-out all in the same week. I've been walking every day and that helps a lot.
PeggySull, for night-time sweet cravings try Constant Comment decaf tea. Bigelow makes it so you should be able to find it in the grocery store. It's flavored with the rind of oranges and sweet spice, and is good hot or cold. I find it satisfying without being sweetened. I also like their decaf Earl Grey, but hot, with a bit of milk and honey.
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Just went "shopping" in a bag of my old "skinny" clothes and it was so much fun and such a nice suprise to see that some of them fit again and others almost fit. Now I need some advice from my daughters to know which ones are hopelessly out of style, but this was just the motivater I needed to keep on keepin' on.
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Good job, Annie!
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Annie, I'm so happy for you! Good job!
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Good job, Annie! Hang onto those clothes; they may come back in style.
for example: low-rise jeans? ==> hip huggers! And how about paisley?
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Thanks Ladies! Y'all are the greatest!
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Awesome Annie - I have a tote of those clothes too, looking forward to the day when some of them will fit again - why, some even have tags on them! A couple of years ago I quit buying clothes that were snug but "will fit when I lose a few pounds", realizing that wearing clothes in a larger size that fit well makes you look thinner than having muffin tops and buttonhole gaps.
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What a wonderful Wednesday! Yahoo big drop for me after putting on last week, I dropped 2.6 lbs! I'm pretty sure I must have had a bit of water retention last wed. because I really haven't done much different. 173.8 -NAB.
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Down 1.5 from last Wednesday. I'm at 127.7.
Slv, way to go!
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Wow AnnieLane that's great! I have been 127 since before I was pregnant with my first! Ill be very happy if I can get down to 150 at this point.
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OK, I have the 5 vacation pounds off (finally), plus another .2 (yes, that is a decimal point).
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